Dr. W. J. Spillman, former chief of the Federal Farm Management Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, stated in a letter to the New York …
(via Smithsonian Magazine) Starting in 1918, as the Bay Area suffered through the flu pandemic, Californians crafted masks of gauze, an open-weave fabric perhaps hard-pressed …
As the Interchurch World Movement was gaining momentum, Samuel Zane Batten wrote a book titled “The New World Order”, published in 1919 by the American …
Rosa Luxemberg’s revolutionaries infiltrated into the German High Seas fleet, becoming very active in 1918. They spread rumors that the ships, and their crews, were …
During World War I, many Native Americans from around 26 tribes were enlisted to fight on the Allies’ side. German troops were extremely adept at intercepting and …
The Council of People’s Commissars (the government) ordered the surrender of all firearms, ammunition, and sabres. As has been the case in almost every nation …
In the early morning of 17 July 1918 at around 1am, a squad of Bolshevik secret police murdered Russia’s last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, along …
On July 6, 1918, Allied troops readied themselves for a forgotten battle that turned the tide of World War I. Thousands of American servicemen marched …
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917 passed by Congress at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who was concerned that any antiwar …
The first Soviet gun controls were imposed during the Russian Civil War, as Czarists, Western troops, and national independence movements battled the central Red regime. …
